Chapter 269 It’s bad! Wang Yue led the army to run away first!
After entering Jianshui Prefecture, Wang Yue walked along the way and saw only tens of thousands of native Han people rebuilding his house that was burned by the war.
Occasionally, there are crying from the people who have lost their loved ones, but overall, it is still quite calm.
The local people, when they saw Wang Yue's army of 100,000, were all frightened, and stood there at a loss, watching them pass by.
Some timid people rolled and crawled back into the house, not daring to come out.
Wang Yue's army was in a huge formation and could not hide it at all. Immediately someone reported the news to the current Duke of Qian Mu Cong.
Mu Cong led the three thousand soldiers to Jianshui Prefecture and took only two days to repel the soldiers who invaded Annan.
Soup later, he received news from the court that he sent 100,000 troops to ask for Annan in the county.
So he did not return to Prince Mu's mansion, but instead stationed in Jianshui Prefecture with three thousand soldiers, waiting for Wang Yue and others to arrive.
When Mu Cong heard that the army had arrived in Jianshui Prefecture, he immediately stood up with his people and went to greet him in person.
Soon, Mu Cong and others rushed to the front of the army.
After revealing his identity to the scouts of the army, Mu Cong successfully came to the central army camp and met Wang Yue. "General Wang, don't blame me for any mistakes."
Mu Cong clasped his fists at Wang Yue and acted very politely.
When Wang Yue learned about Mu Cong's identity, he walked two steps in surprise and came to Mu Cong and bowed his hand to return the gift.
"Duke, why did you come out of the city to greet me in person? You are so polite."
Wang Yue's title is Weining Bo, his official position is the Governor of the Southwest and the General of the Conquering the Yi.
Mu Cong's title was Duke of Qian and his official position was General of Yunnan.
In terms of official positions, the governor and general officer are both second-rank officials.
It is just that unlike the general officer who only controls military affairs in one province, the governor is also in charge of several provinces, and at the same time, he also controls government affairs and economy in addition to military affairs.
Moreover, the governor is usually established, while the general officer is permanent.
In terms of titles, the Duke of Qian is two levels higher than Weiningbo, and he was hereditary and renamed, Yongzhen in southern Yunnan.
So, Wang Yue must be well-mannered in front of Mu Cong.
But Wang Yue was an imperial envoy sent by the court, holding 100,000 heavy troops. From the actual situation, Mu Cong must be polite to Wang Yue. "It's okay, the reconstruction of Jianshui Prefecture is coming to an end. I have nothing to do, so I will come out to welcome you."
"The mountains are high and the rivers are long and rugged, and it is difficult to move forward. The soldiers have worked hard all the way. I have ordered people to prepare wine and food in the military camp." "Come on, General Wang, let's enter the city first. Talk while walking."
"Okay, please, Lord Duke."
"Please, General Wang."
After a humble concession, the army marched towards Jianshui City again .
Along the way, Mu Cong was telling Wang Yue about the incident since Annan invaded Jianshui Pond.
Through Mu Cong's description, Wang Yue has a rough understanding of the current situation.
Annan has retreated its troops, and the local native Han people have also built their own homes.
Within and outside the border, it seemed that this had never happened, and returned to the peace of the past.
In general, neither King Annan nor the local officials of the Ming Dynasty regarded this border conflict as a matter.
There are two reasons. The first is that since Annan escaped from the control of the Ming Dynasty, border conflicts of this scale have been common in the past few decades since independence.
When the Annan Army first rushed into the Ming Dynasty, it was a huge momentum and had a large number of soldiers.
After that after a few days of fighting, he stopped and took the initiative to retreat.
The typical thunder sounds are loud and the raindrops are small, which will cause extremely limited damage to the Ming Dynasty.
For the sake of their political achievements, local officials were unwilling to expand the military situation. They wrote a memorial and reported the military situation to the end, and they didn't want to find the place again.
The second and most important reason is that Annan is really not a place where people stay.
Dianzhou and northern Annan have similar geological conditions, high mountains and deep forests, snakes, insects, rats and ants, and swamps and miasma.
But the problem is that the Ming Dynasty court and local yamen will pay for the construction of roads and maintain post roads.
And the Annan court, regardless of those, was a mountain road that the local people stepped out of. In some places, only one person could pass through, and it was extremely difficult for horses to pass through.
The roads in Dianzhou were already very difficult to walk, but there was no road when you arrived at the boundary of Annan.
Many places have to dismount and move, and the advantages of cavalry are gone.
In addition, Annan has high trees and deep forests, it is easy to lose its way. If you enter it rashly, it is easy to fall into ambush by locals who are familiar with the local environment and waste your lives in vain.
The local soldiers of Jianshui Prefecture are unwilling to enter Annan easily, let alone soldiers from other places who come from afar and are not accommodating the local conditions.
Just a while ago, when Annan retreated, the deputy Qianhu, the local Qianhu Office, led more than 300 Tatars who were demoted here to pursue the enemy.
As a result, after only tens of miles deep, the locals were beaten to run away with the help of the terrain.
More than 300 Tatar soldiers finally escaped only more than 60 people. Such a high rate of damages is shocking.
Mu Cong's meaning inside and outside is actually just to remind Wang Yue.
The county and county Annan are really too difficult. They are definitely not something that can be done by 100,000 soldiers. Just let them know. Don’t ruin the 100,000 troops of the Ming Dynasty for nothing because of impulse.
Wang Yue listened silently, feeling a little heavy, because he knew in his heart that Mu Cong's words were true and were by no means exaggerated.
The reason why Emperor Taizong was able to succeed in Jiaozhi during the Yongle period was that the Ming Dynasty was strong at that time, not only did the huge profits brought by Zheng He's voyage to the West, but also the invincible Ming army of millions of people. . Second, it was because the Ming Navy at that time dominated the world.
In the Annan War during the Yongle period, Emperor Taizong sent an army of 800,000 to attack Annan from Pingxiangzhou.
Thousands of sea ships were dispatched to attack Annan from the water, and a two-pronged approach was taken to successfully win the Annan War.
Even if there is water in the records of the Ming Dynasty, the troops used by Emperor Taizong must have been much more than Wang Yue’s 100,000 troops.
And the most important point is that because the Jiangnan smuggling group wanted to monopolize the smuggling trade at sea, it launched a crazy suppression of the Ming Dynasty's navy.
Not only did the ranks shrink again and again, but the food and salary supplies were also cut again and again, even so arrogant that the Ming Navy did not allow the Ming Dynasty to go to sea for training.
These are all policies issued by Yu Qian during the Jingtai period.
And it was not restored until the Chenghua period.
After so many years of suppression of the Ming Navy by the gentry in Jiangnan, the Ming Navy has degenerated very seriously and is really useless.
We must first rectify to restore our past glory.
The situation Wang Yue is facing now is that there are insufficient troops, difficult supply, complex terrain, and no navy.
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Maybe the best choice now is to pretend to make a name for himself and then withdraw his troops.
But Wang Yue bears the heavy responsibility of His Majesty. He would rather die in Annan than retreat.
As they were talking, everyone came to the temporary military camp built by Mu Cong in Jianshui Prefecture.
Jianshuizhou is a place that is not three miles wide, and the rolling mountains are something that many northerners have never seen before.
The houses of local residents are built on the mountain, and even the county town and military camp are built on the mountain.
After the army arrived, the barracks had indeed prepared wine and food. Mu Cong smiled and arranged for people to entertain the 100,000 soldiers to eat and drink.
But before the banquet started, Wang Yue said seriously to the officers around him: "If you pass the order, the army will not be allowed to drink, and water will be replaced."
"If you drink without authorization, military law will be punished! ”
Mu Cong's smile stopped: "The army has been walking along the way, and the horses are exhausted. Why can't we drink so hard and have a good rest?" "General Wang, don't worry, I have arranged people on duty in the military camp. , there will be no situation."
Wang Yue smiled faintly: "Please forgive me for the Duke of China. No one is allowed to drink when the troops go to the expedition. After the county and county are successful, I will let the troops drink happily. I was drunk and stopped. "
Mu Cong did not insist and bowed and smiled, "I admire the strictness of the general's military governance, so we..."
"I don't drink, the country's Please give me a gift.”
"Since that's the case, we will replace it with water, please eat food."
"Please."
Mu Cong only focused on eating and drinking, and did not take the initiative to mention the attack on Annan.
This attitude inevitably made Wang Yue look down upon him.
Wang Yue took the initiative to ask several times, but Mu Cong beat him up and broke it apart. Seeing this, Wang Yue didn't ask again, but just ate the food quietly.
Three days after that, Mu Cong only took Wang Yue to travel around Jianshuizhou and did not propose any matters of conquest.
Wang Yue also let him go, not urging him, but just let his 100,000 troops rest.
Three days later, Wang Yue offered to stop drunk tonight.
Mu Cong laughed to the sky and quickly asked someone to arrange a banquet.
Soon, in the evening, Wang Yue raised his glass and had fun with Mu Cong.
Not only did Wang Yue drink, he also asked his soldiers to take the initiative to find Mu Cong's soldiers to drink together.
At the beginning, Mu Cong's soldiers said they had to be on duty and said they would not drink anything.
When this matter was reported to Wang Yue, Wang Yue pretended to be displeased: "The Duke of the State advised us to drink, but your own soldiers did not drink it."
"You don't want to drink it." Drink, are you not giving us face, do you look down on us, the imperial army sent by the court? "
"This...of course not, but there must be someone guarding the military camp, right?"
Mu Cong was still ruling at first, but later he couldn't refuse, so he had to agree.
In this way, 100,000 people drank 3,000 people. After a series of attacks, even the people in southern Yunnan who were drunk were drunk.
Even Mu Cong himself was drunk.
Before I got drunk, Mu Cong fell asleep with confidence when he saw Wang Yue who was also drunk.
It was not until noon the next day that Mu Cong was anxiously awakened by his subordinates.
"Dude, it's not good! Wang Yue will run away with his army!"
"What?!"
Mu Cong was shocked and sweated in a cold sweat and joined the military tent. Run out.
I saw that the huge military camp was indeed empty.
Wang Yue, with his army of 100,000 and more than 200,000 logistics supply troops, a total of more than 300,000 people disappeared from the barracks!
"Hurry! Let's go immediately and catch up with them!"
Mu Cong immediately ordered to change into military uniforms, turn on his horse, and take the three thousand armored soldiers to catch up with Wang Yue's large army.
(This chapter ends)